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John C. Cawood
John Charles Cawood (1872–12 June 1962) was an Australian administrator who served as Government Resident of Central Australia during the territory's brief existence as a separate jurisdiction from the Northern Territory. The seat of power was Alice Springs, then known as Stuart Town. Cawood had a background as a forester and sawmiller. He had served as president of the Bellingen Shire Council in New South Wales and was also a coroner and magistrate. Cawood was the first person to hold this office, serving from 1926 till 1929. He oversaw an inquiry in the Coniston Massacre of 1928. His successor was Victor George Carrington, who served from 1929 until the territory's abolition (and re-establishment of the Northern Territory) in 1931. Cawood retired to Cronulla, New South Wales. He was elected president of the Cronulla branch of the United Australia Party The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Resident Of Central Australia
Central Australia was a territory of Australia that existed from 1927 to 1931. It was formed from the split of the Northern Territory in 1927 alongside the territory of North Australia; the dividing line between the two was 20 degrees south latitude. The two territories were merged in 1931 to reform the Northern Territory. Central Australia's seat was in Stuart, which was known commonly, and has been officially since 1933, as Alice Springs. Background The split occurred because interior minister George Pearce felt that the Northern Territory was too big to govern efficiently, and was part of Pearce's plan to create a specialised commission to develop Australia north of the 20th parallel. It occurred on 1 March 1927. Government Whereas the Northern Territory had been governed by an Administrator, both North Australia and Central Australia were governed by Government Residents. The Government Resident of Central Australia was paid £750 annually while the Resident of North Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Carrington
Victor George Carrington was an Australian administrator. He was the second and last Government Resident of Central Australia, the short lived Territory of Australia which re-merged with the Territory of North Australia in 1931 to form the Northern Territory. Following the reunification Carrington was designated as Deputy Administrator, based in Alice Springs, until he was again re-designated to being a District Officer in 1937. In 1934 Carrington was instrumental in prosecuting, Gordon Keith Freeman, the superintendent at The Bungalow The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locations in Alice Springs (then called Stuart), Jay Creek and the Alice Springs Tele ... for rape. References * Administrators of the Northern Territory {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Administrator (Australia)
The title Administrator of the government (Administrator) has several uses in Australia. Administrator of the Commonwealth Section 4 of the Constitution of Australia, Australian Constitution provides that: :''The provisions of this Constitution relating to the Governor-General extend and apply to the Governor-General for the time being, or such person as the Queen may appoint to administer the Government of the Commonwealth; but no such person shall be entitled to receive any salary from the Commonwealth in respect of any other office during his administration of the Government of the Commonwealth.'' Accordingly, an Administrator is appointed when the Governor-General of Australia, Governor-General dies, resigns or is absent from Australia. The Administrator is styled either Administrator of the Commonwealth or, less commonly, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth. By Constitutional convention (political custom), convention, the Administrator is usually the longest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; formally the Northern Territory of Australia) is an Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia. The Northern Territory shares its borders with Western Australia to the west ( 129th meridian east), South Australia to the south ( 26th parallel south), and Queensland to the east ( 138th meridian east). To the north, the territory looks out to the Timor Sea, the Arafura Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria, including Western New Guinea and other islands of the Indonesian archipelago. The NT covers , making it the third-largest Australian federal division, and the 11th-largest country subdivision in the world. It is sparsely populated, with a population of only 249,000 – fewer than half as many people as in Tasmania. The largest population center is the capital city of Darwin. The archaeological history of the Northern Territory may have begun more than 60,000 years ago when humans first sett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Springs
Alice Springs ( aer, Mparntwe) is the third-largest town in the Northern Territory of Australia. Known as Stuart until 31 August 1933, the name Alice Springs was given by surveyor William Whitfield Mills after Alice, Lady Todd (''née'' Alice Gillam Bell), wife of the telegraph pioneer Sir Charles Todd. Known colloquially as 'The Alice' or simply 'Alice', the town is situated roughly in Australia's geographic centre. It is nearly equidistant from Adelaide and Darwin. The area is also known locally as Mparntwe to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for tens of thousands of years. Alice Springs had an urban population of 26,534 Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. in June 2018, having declined an average of 1.16% per year the preceding five years. The town's population accounts for approximately 10 per cent of the population of the Northern Territory. The town straddles t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bellingen Shire
Bellingen Shire is a local government area in the mid north coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is located adjacent to the Pacific Highway, Waterfall Way and the North Coast railway line. The Mayor of the Bellingen Shire is Cr. Steve Allan, an independent. Towns and localities Towns and localities in the Bellingen Shire are: * Bellingen * Bostobrick * Brierfield * Cascade * Darkwood * Deer Vale * Dorrigo * Fernmount * Gleniffer * Hydes Creek * Leigh * Megan * Mylestom * Orama * Raleigh * Repton * Tarkeeth * Thora * Urunga * Valery Demographics At the , there were people in the Bellingen local government area, of these 48.5 per cent were male and 51.5 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.0 per cent of the population which is higher than the national and state averages of 2.5 per cent. The median age of people in the Bellingen Shire was 46 years; some 10 years higher than the national median. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coniston Massacre
The Coniston massacre, which took place in the region around the Coniston cattle station in the then Territory of Central Australia (now the Northern Territory) from 14 August to 18 October 1928, was the last known officially sanctioned massacre of Indigenous Australians and one of the last events of the Australian Frontier Wars. In a series of punitive expeditions led by Northern Territory Police constable William George Murray, people of the Warlpiri, Anmatyerre, and Kaytetye groups were killed. The massacre occurred in response to the murder of dingo hunter Frederick Brooks, killed by Aboriginal people in August 1928 at a place called ''Yukurru'', also known as Brooks Soak. Official records at the time state that at least 31 people were killed, however analysis of existing documentation and Aboriginal oral histories reveal that the fatalities were likely to have been as high as 200. Background Central Australia was Australia's last colonial frontier, sparsely populated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor George Carrington
Victor George Carrington was an Australian administrator. He was the second and last Government Resident of Central Australia, the short lived Territory of Australia which re-merged with the Territory of North Australia in 1931 to form the Northern Territory. Following the reunification Carrington was designated as Deputy Administrator, based in Alice Springs, until he was again re-designated to being a District Officer in 1937. In 1934 Carrington was instrumental in prosecuting, Gordon Keith Freeman, the superintendent at The Bungalow The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locations in Alice Springs (then called Stuart), Jay Creek and the Alice Springs Tele ... for rape. References * Administrators of the Northern Territory {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cronulla, New South Wales
Cronulla is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Boasting numerous surf beaches and swimming spots, the suburb attracts both tourists and Greater Sydney residents. Cronulla is located 26 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Sutherland Shire. Cronulla is located on a peninsula framed by Botany Bay to the north, Bate Bay to the east, Port Hacking to the south, and Gunnamatta Bay to the west. The neighbouring suburb of Woolooware lies to the west of Cronulla, and Burraneer lies to the southwest. The Kurnell peninsula, the site of the first landfall on the eastern coastline made by Captain James Cook in 1770, is reached by driving northeast out of Cronulla on Captain Cook Drive. History Cronulla is derived from the Aboriginal word , meaning ‘'place of the small pink seashell'’ in the dialect of the area's Indigenous inhabitants, the Gweagal, who were a clan of the Tharawal (or Dhar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two prime ministers: Joseph Lyons ( 1932–1939) and Robert Menzies ( 1939–1941). The UAP was created in the aftermath of the 1931 split in the Australian Labor Party. Six fiscally conservative Labor MPs left the party to protest the Scullin Government's financial policies during the Great Depression. Led by Joseph Lyons, a former Premier of Tasmania, the defectors initially sat as independents, but then agreed to merge with the Nationalist Party and form a united opposition. Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader due to his popularity among the general public, with former Nationalist leader John Latham becoming his deputy. He led the UAP to a landslide victory at the 1931 federal election, where the party secured an outright majority i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Propeller
''The Propeller'' was a weekly English language newspaper published in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia. Newspaper history ''The Propeller'' began publication on 10 March 1911 and continued until 31 December 1969. It was published by the Wennholm Bros. It began with a print run of 2000 copies and was free of charge. Its successor was the ''St George and Sutherland Shire Leader'' which was founded in 1960 and continues to this day. Digitisation The newspaper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta .... See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales References External links St George & Sutherland Shire L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
